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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2016/07/20 08:50
Universal datetime 2016/07/19 23:50
Latitude 40.24 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 140.59 ° ± 5 km
Depth 10 km (from location) ± 0.0 km

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Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Sendai  220 1.037562e+06
Niigata  291 505272
Kōriyama  315 340560
Akita  73 320069
Aomori  65 298394
Morioka  74 295172
Fukushima  278 294237
Hakodate  173 275730
Yamagata  220 254538
Hachinohe  86 239046
Hirosaki  38 174972
Tomakomai  279 174806
Sakata  160 100446
Tsuruoka  183 99820
Muroran  236 96197

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 2.39
Azimuthal gap 130.53 °
Number of stations used 18
Number of phases used 18

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II ERM P 23:51:05.32 -4.67 46.63 2.62 Automatic
IU PET P 23:54:38.15 3.63 37.8 17.71 Automatic
IU MA2 P 23:55:02.27 -1.99 14.9 20.36 Automatic
IU YAK P 23:55:31.87 1.72 346.74 22.77 Automatic
IU CHTO P 23:58:12.42 -3.08 251.48 41.56 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 23:58:21.27 1.44 299.18 42.01 Automatic
II KURK P 23:58:31.67 0.9 305.5 43.35 Automatic
II AAK P 23:59:11.87 1.85 295.76 48.31 Automatic
II NIL P 23:59:45.42 0.61 285.68 52.92 Automatic
II WRAB P 00:00:36.57 1.31 186.74 60.46 Automatic
II OBN P 00:01:07.72 -0.73 322.21 64.9 Automatic
II KIV P 00:01:28.62 -0.37 309.79 68.11 Automatic
IU GNI P 00:01:36.17 1.14 305.51 69.08 Automatic
II PFO P 00:02:28.32 3.17 56.21 77.58 Automatic
IU RSSD P 00:02:28.37 3.03 41.62 77.59 Automatic
II RAYN P 00:02:28.17 -3.07 291.36 78.71 Automatic
II BFO P 00:02:45.87 -2.78 330.2 81.88 Automatic
IU ANMO P 00:02:51.2 -2.1 49.54 82.76 Automatic